Take a compliment and watch what you do with it. You file it away as proof, evidence you're owed more of the same.
Lose something and the same instinct logs the loss.
Pride and attachment sound like opposites.
One swells, one clings.
But they keep the same books.
Pride records what you're owed. Attachment guards what you've banked.
You think the calm ones have simply let go. That they care less.
They haven't. They've closed the books.
Nothing is lost from a life you never logged as profit.
There's nothing to defend when nothing sits on the ledger as yours.
Receive it clean. Let it pass through.
An empty ledger is the only one that can't be robbed.
